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Data Engineer, Technical Leadership (Ranking, AI)

Meta

Bellevue, WAJob$210–281K/yrSeen 3mo agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$210–281K/yr
Location
Bellevue, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta’s Ranking AI organization develops recommendation systems for its Ads stack, with a focus on new modeling architectures, model-hardware co-design, and using anonymized, aggregated data. The Data Engineer technical leader will shape data foundations and architecture, build data models and integrations, and work with product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to support products across Instagram and other domains.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data Warehousing, requiredCustom ETL Design, requiredObject-Oriented Programming, requiredSchema Design, requiredDimensional Data Modeling, requiredSQL, requiredData Analysis, requiredData Warehouse Planning, requiredMapReduce, nice to haveMPP Systems, nice to haveAI Workflow Optimization, nice to haveData-Driven Product Decisions, nice to havePrompt Engineering, nice to haveContext Engineering, nice to haveAgent Orchestration, nice to haveResponsible AI, nice to havePython, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Related Field or Equivalent Experience, required10+ Years Data Warehouse Experience, required10+ Years Custom ETL Experience, required10+ Years Object-Oriented Programming Experience, required10+ Years Schema Design and Dimensional Modeling Experience, required10+ Years SQL Experience, required

Full job description

Summary:

Ranking AI is the central core machine learning org within Meta’s Monetization group, powering Meta’s revenue and business growth by advancing and deploying state-of-the-art Recommendation Systems AI for our Ads stack. We are currently redesigning the large and fragmented ads model space by developing new modeling architectures, advancing the scale limit through model-hardware co-design, and developing techniques that better leverage anonymized, aggregated data. While there is significant focus on innovation, we pride ourselves in being able to translate research to production with high velocity, delivering on half-over-half revenue targets in a predictable fashionWe are looking for a technical leader in our Data Engineering team to work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers to support building out a great platform for the future of computing. In this role, you will experience a direct correlation between your work, company growth, and user satisfaction. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers, researchers, and cross-functional partners, work with large-scale, diverse data sets, use modern technology, and see your efforts affect products and people on a regular basis.Move to MINIMUM_QUALIFICATION or PREFERRED_QUALIFICATIONS.

Required Skills:

Data Engineer, Technical Leadership (Ranking, AI) Responsibilities:

  1. Proactively drive the vision for data foundation and analytics to accelerate building and improvement of cross platform components across Instagram, and define and execute on plan to achieve that vision

  2. Conceptualize and own the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects, while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems

  3. Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve

  4. Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers and Software Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs

  5. Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership

  6. Determine and implement the security model based on privacy requirements, confirm safeguards are followed, address data quality issues, and evolve governance processes within allocated areas of ownership

  7. Design, build, and launch collections of sophisticated data models and visualizations that support use cases across different products or domains

  8. Solve our most challenging data integrations problems, utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources

  9. Assist in owning existing processes running in production, optimizing complex code through advanced algorithmic concepts

  10. Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts

  11. Influence product and cross-functional teams to identify data opportunities to drive impact

  12. Mentor team members by giving/receiving actionable feedback

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

  2. 10+ years experience in the data warehouse space

  3. 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance

  4. 10+ years experience with object-oriented programming languages

  5. 10+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling

  6. 10+ years experience in authoring SQL statements

  7. Experience analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies

  8. Experience managing and communicating data warehouse plans to cross-functional stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience driving projects independently within distributed, global teams

  2. Experience working with either a MapReduce or an MPP system

  3. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  4. Experience influencing product decisions with data

  5. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  6. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  7. BS/BA in Technical Field, Computer Science or Mathematics

  8. Knowledge and practical application of Python

Public Compensation:

$210,000/year to $281,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 2,958 open Data Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$210–281K/yr
  • Washington median$135–229K/yr101 salary ranges
  • US median$124–212K/yr2,365 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $246K, is 35% above the Washington median midpoint ($182K) — in the top quarter of Data Engineering salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 114 open Data Engineering jobs in Washington and 2,958 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Data Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,528 postings).
Education
1,177 of the 2,958 open Data Engineering jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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